The Nets aren’t actively shopping Joe Harris and DeMarre Carroll with the trade deadline fast approaching, but that doesn’t mean they’re not fielding calls and listening to offers.

“We just have to wait and see,” general manager Sean Marks said. “We’re always getting calls. That’s a credit to the players because they’ve devoted themselves and really developed themselves and it’s a credit to our coaching staff because they’ve done a heck of a job and the performance team has done a heck of a job developing these guys.

“Just because we get a call doesn’t mean we’re going to do anything. At the end of the day, if we’ve invested a lot of sweat equity in guys, I’d like that to be fruitful for the Nets organization. I don’t know how that’s going to play out. I don’t think anybody does.”

With Carroll drawing interest from teams, and Harris a bargain on a $1.5 million, expiring deal and a pending free agent, both are viewed as viable assets with the deadline approaching Thursday.

“I don’t love using the term ‘asset’ because that sort of dehumanizes the whole thing,” Marks said. “Our guys are part of the Nets family.”

Marks doesn’t like the term, but the NBA is a “Godfather”-style family: Strictly business.

Marks was hired to make the difficult decisions. Hired on the day of the 2016 trade deadline, that summer he traded Thaddeus Young for the
pick that became Caris LeVert. At last year’s deadline, he moved Bojan Bogdanovic for the pick that became Jarrett Allen. Last summer, he dealt Brook Lopez to land D’Angelo Russell.

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And finally on Dec. 7, Marks traded Trevor Booker to bring in Jahlil Okafor and Nik Stauskas, a move Booker had predicted. Marks’ history shows — relationships or no — he doesn’t let anybody leave the family for nothing.

“I think there’s that, sure,” Marks said. “But then there’s also continuity. There’s developing a culture, there’s systems. How aggressive are you going to be in free agency this year, next year, three years from now? There’s so many [variables]. We’ve got to have the long view here.”

From players such as Harris or G-League success story Spencer Dinwiddie (making $1.5 million this season, $1.6 million next and dubbed the NBA’s best bargain by Toronto coach Dwane Casey), the Nets have several players outperforming their contracts in career seasons. It makes them attractive to other teams.

But Marks knows full well he can’t expect a hometown discount from Harris or Dinwiddie, or unrestricted free-agent-to-be Okafor, or any others.

“It’s a business for them, too, right?” Marks said. “Everybody has a walkaway, right? We have walkaways. We’ll see. You never know. We’ve been creative up until this point. We’ve been patient up until this point. That’s going to continue. We’re going to be curious. There’s going to be other guys that we find and develop along the way here. It could be one, it could be three, I have no idea.

“Anybody that comes here, let’s put our arm around them and see how we can help their game, put them in a place to succeed. That pays off. That’s where you get guys going ‘Hey, I appreciate what they did for us.’ Whether that means they’re going to greener pastures elsewhere, great. But my hope would be when anybody leaves … they speak highly of however they were treated. That’s all I can hope for.”